Siegfried Martin Winter

Siegfried Martin Winter (born March 20, 1893 in Schwerin , † March 16, 1975 in Nassau (Lahn) ) was a German author who emigrated to Argentina in 1920 .

As a war volunteer, he took part in the First World War and became an active officer. After saying goodbye in March 1920, he emigrated in the autumn of the same year and lived in Argentina and Chile for 18 years . First as a fur hunter, later as a fur trader and finally as an exporter. He got to know these two countries thoroughly on long journeys and also made journeys through Bolivia and Paraguay for months . He also devoted himself to geographic and scientific questions, was a journalist and also published two smaller books in Spanish. In 1938 he returned to Germany to publish the results of his long experiences and observations. His first work, Life conquered the earth , was banned, confiscated and pulped because it represented views in the areas of race and heredity that were not acceptable to the prevailing ideology. He then limited himself to reports about the country and its people and published South American years of travel. In the publishing Brockhaus Wiesbaden appeared after the Second World War Kordillerenfahrten , with liner and folding kayaks and intermediate Gran Chaco and Tierra del Fuego . In 1958/59 he crossed the American double continent from south to north in a BMW 600 .

Works

• Life conquers the earth , Ernst Reinhardt 1939 Verlag, Munich
• South American wandering years , Broschek, Hamburg 1941.
• Cordilleras , Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1948.
• Between Gran Chaco and Tierra del Fuego , Brockhaus, Wiesbaden
• With rifle and folding boat , Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1951.
• Lost ways , Benziger , Cologne 1956.
• With 600 cubic meters through both America , Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1960,

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegfried Martin Winter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Siegfried Martin Winter at Open Library